P Tit Matinic and Other Monotones (1894) (Paperback) - Taschenbuch

[EAN: 9781120684325], Neubuch, [PU: Kessinger Publishing, United States], Language: English Brand New Book ***** Print on Demand *****.This book is a facsimile reprint and may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Purchase of this book includes free trial access to where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Hain t neither, I tell ye ! It was not until the well had been sounded and prodded for half an hour,?first by the men, then by the women, and finally by an adventurous youth who climbed down into it with widely spread legs,? that one Maria Liz appeared at the top of the lane, and, wildly waving her arms, announced in a grating,na- sal voice, I found er in un er the baid! and then there was an excited scramble among the women to see who should reach the house first. It then came out that? Ye see, DrusiF she s set ag in egs- travagant livin , bein drefful clus and savin ? an her folks allus wuz before her. Why, I member her paa way back in 62. And here followed a history of the author of Drusil s being, with which I will not delay the narrative in hand. Well, an that s heaow shecame by her clus ways; and now Fairf ? Fairf s drefful open- handed, Fairf is. Ye see, Fairf he s had a good charnce to see- coor as fine a yoke of cattle as I ever see, an I ve seen? Here was interpolated a description of a certain yoke of cattle that the speaker had seen at the Lewiston Fair. Well, Fairf hegoes to Drusil , and he up and tells her of the steers, a-p intin toward the advarntages into em, and lows that t would be a good thing for him to take the lawbster money, as was sot by, and go and git em short-hand. Well, b jolly, Drusil she bucked ag in it, and sot up such a waxy opposin of it, that Fairf he gin up and took out of the house, and baited two tub of trawl gear before he dast go nigh her ag in. But them steer they kind of ha nted Fairfs mind, and he could n t git shet of thinkin of their silky hides and long outda- cious horns of em ; and then he see the profit that they was into em, with the luggin of the winter wood, an the haul i. ***** Print on Demand *****.